Annals of internal medicine
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Multicenter Study
Incidence of and Factors Associated With Recurrent Firearm Injury Among Patients Presenting to St. Louis Trauma Centers, 2010 to 2019 : A Cohort Study.
Firearm injuries are a public health crisis in the United States. ⋯ Emergency Medicine Foundation-AFFIRM and Missouri Foundation for Health.
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Congress established the Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) Program to reduce unnecessary advanced imaging studies. Organizations that wish to develop AUC can apply to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to qualify as provider-led entities (PLEs) under this program. Variable methods, content, and formatting of PLE-generated AUC could lead to clinician uncertainty about whether an advanced imaging test is appropriate or not. ⋯ No funding was received for this study.
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Comment Meta Analysis
SGLT2 inhibitors improved health status in Black and White patients with HF regardless of race.
Gupta K, Spertus JA, Birmingham M, et al. Racial differences in quality of life in patients with heart failure treated with sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors: a patient-level meta-analysis of the CHIEF-HF, DEFINE-HF, and PRESERVED-HF trials. Circulation. 2023;148:220-228. 37191040.
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Observational Study
Social, Behavioral, and Metabolic Risk Factors and Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in U.S. Adults : An Observational Study.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality is persistently higher in the Black population than in other racial and ethnic groups in the United States. ⋯ National Institutes of Health.
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Overdiagnosis is increasingly recognized as a harm of breast cancer screening, particularly for older women. ⋯ National Cancer Institute.